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with an entrance from the interior 3’ across
are visible. Some of the stones used in the
structure are very large, one on the S. [South] whose upper
surface is 5 ft. [feet] above the ground level is 5’ long
3 ft. [feet] across and 1’ thick. To get across
the Cassley I had to take off my shoes & stockings
and wade, rather a painful performance as
the gravel was very sharp. I recrossed by the
same method & walked down to the shepherd’s
house at Badintagart where I had left my
bicycle, killing an adder on the road by the
way. At Badintagart I could find no trace
of the priest’s house which the name implies.
Bicycling back to Auchness I made enquiry
from the farm manager’s wife, or housekeeper
for the brochs & got a tumbler of milk to refresh
me. In the haugh between the road & the
Cassely on a knoll about 50 yds [yards] back from
the latter are indications of the existence of
a broch. Only a stone or two of the outer wall
is visible. The site is overgrown with grass.
About 300 yds. [yards] N. [North] at the upper end of the haugh
is the site of another of which a very little
more is apparent. It has been of great size
and has had a diameter over all of from
78’ to 80’. The walls appear to have been 18’ thick.

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